We're Jennifer and Jonathan, makers of modern art canvas prints for children at FatandAppy.com. Jonathan is the author + illustrator of four children's books published by Penguin USA. Jennifer is a novelist and the author of ThePenzy.com.

This will be Jonathan’s first children’s book with Scholastic. His agent, the lovely Carrie Hannigan of HSG Agency, sold the book to Katie Carella at Scholastic. I just got the shivers typing that sentence. I mean, Sch-o-las-tic! Home of Harry Potter! Keeper of book fairs across the land. Eek and eek.

So, yeah, we’re just a little bit excited over here.

Barnacle Is Bored is a tale of a barnacle who is fairly ho-hum about his life. The tide goes in. The tide goes out. One day, in the midst of his boring life, Barnacle spies a saucy polka-dotted fish. Surely this fish has a great life, right? You’ll have to follow the very bored Barnacle to find out!

We are deeply grateful that Jonathan has been granted the opportunity to work with two great publishers; first Penguin USA and now Scholastic. Writing children’s books is the very thing my sweetie was made to do, I think. And it’s really gratifying to watch this unfold right here in our little studio.

Here are a few illustrations from the book, which could change, but will give you an idea. (Savvy readers of this blog might remember that I blogged about Barnacle before.)

Thanks for stopping by the blog! Jonathan is the author and illustrator of Love Is in the Air, Guppy Up!, Woodward and McTwee, and A Pig, A Fox and A Box (June 16, 2015). In 2016, Scholastic will publish Barnacle Is Bored. Jennifer (that’s me!) is the author of two novels for adults and has a few projects up her sleeves, illustrated by Mr. Fenske.

I love this book! I used it to teach the concept of theme to my kids! It was a HUGE hit! I am planning on writing a blog post and adding the link to your wonderful book so more teachers can purchase it and use it in the classroom!